Boss told me off for exclaiming Jesus Christ

Blasphemous to you, maybe. I don't believe in this particular god, or any of the others, therefore blasphemy doesn't exist to me. I can't be compelled to moderate my speech so that it complies with a made-up set of rules and to avoid "blaspheming" against something that doesn't exist to me. That's ridiculous.

How old are you OP? 12?

Seriously, grow up. No one needs to swear in life at all. It's a learned practice. You can unlearn it, especially for formal settings like work.

There was a time when that would have been considered very offensive in this country. I'm not a devout Christian but I don't like sweary people at work. It makes them seem shovey and aggressive. It says something about your tone and personality. I'd take your boss's advice onboard.

Not at all. As I said upthread, if you've been following it, it's very strange for somebody to exclaim the name of somebody who is supposedly very precious to them in a negative or angry way.

Similarly, if another person used the name of somebody who is very dear to you in your earshot, when they bash their thumb with a hammer or drop and smash their phone.

It's immaterial whether that somebody is your God, your Mum, your Husband, your Daughter or anybody.

Indeed.

Bollocks they can! 😂

There is no law that supports your assertion so feck off with your made-up nonsense.

"Jesus fucking Christ all fucking mighty." Was my ex bosses favourite expression, say it in a thick yorkshireish accent.

When did we start treating "I'm offended" as some kind of holy status that must be capitulated to and bent over for?

I have never felt offended in my life and have no idea what the pain of offense is like. I assume it feels like trapping your nipple's in the door of a 1998 Vauxhall Nova whilst a rabid ferret chews on your piss flaps.
I can't see why else the world is so terrified of causing offense to some cunts.

It was a donkey. Please don't mis-vehicle Jesus.

Jesus Christ! Is something I say all the time. Also Jesus fucking Christ! I was raised a Catholic, convent school educated (now proud atheist), and think anyone that takes offence is an uppity twat.
I had Irish parents so taking the lord’s name in vain is very normal and something I love about dyed in the wool Catholics. I don’t associate with anyone that would take offence, mind. The uppity CofE ‘Christians’ in my village would undoubtedly think it terribly un-Christian, but they are the very worst types and their opinions count for nowt.

why ?

That's nice for him, but the vast majority of black people DO find the N word extremely offensive, and wouldn't ignore it or laugh it off if a white person called them it or said it in front of them.

Business are actually allowed to dictate standards of acceptable behaviour including language to their employees. And it's quite normal for a person's language and behaviour to be different in a work context to what they do and say amongst friends or in casual social situations.

Blasphemy IS insulting someone's religion.

We make a conscious effort not to say it at work as one of our team is a Christian and it upsets her. What isn't a big deal to some people is to others.

I’m an atheist with no religious upbringing so may have missed some information along the way, but Jesus isn’t anyone’s Mum? Weird analogy.

I worked in a newsroom for 25 years where pressures were intense and enotions ran high; the air was often not only blue but indigo or even violet.
As such, I'm inured to pretty much all swearing and blaspheming. There were probably people of faith among my colleagues but I don't know as no-one made any kind of fuss about it.
If a person was offended enough to complain they would probably be told it was a newsroom, in the real world, where adult people of all faiths and none were trying to do their job under often difficult circumstances yet managing to get on with it, so they should probably reflect on whether it was the right environment for them.
That said, when general swearing became a personal attack, as happened occasionally, it felt much more dangerous. But on the whole in such a highly presssured environment, sometimes it is better to let off steam. Swearing has a purpose.

Well unless your business is selling Bibles, he can feck off trying to police other people’s use of language.

I’m in Ireland so we tend to enjoy a wide variety of blasphemous expletives.

Surely it isn’t so hard to imagine why this can be ‘an issue’ for Christians?

I find this (seemingly society-wide) lack of empathy and imagination about people different to ourselves quite worrying, even when sincerely expressed.

It's religiously offensive to some people, and therefore a no-no. Would you invoke the name of Mohammed, for instance, as a swear word? Just accept the lesson and move on. I'm sure you'll remember in future.

They can't help being black or chinese.

Religion is choice.

My black husband isn’t sensitive either.

Yes, my view as well. I wouldn’t raise it with a colleague, but I do with my kids.

All religions should be treated with respect ,

Why ?

I don’t know if i’d tell someone off but it’s not appropriate.

take my advice dear and next time you need an exclamation, slam the prophet or the the egyptian cat, or the Chinese dragon and let's see where you will end my dear. Come back and make thread about it also

And presumably you'd also say the same to a black or Chinese person who objected to you using words that they found very offensive?